If you’ve been wanting to check out the charts and graphs detailing the relationships of the seven books in the Hogwarts Saga to one another as well as every single chapter as a reverse echo or parallel of another chapter in the book in which it appears, then today is the day to buy Harry Potter as Ring Composition and Ring Cycle at LuLu.com. Everything there, including Ring as book or pdf, is 30% off today until midnight PST. Just enter CYBERMONDAY305 when you check out.

When the Deathly Hallows Part 2 DVD was released earlier this month, I received several emails with the strong recommendation that I buy a copy with the ‘extras’ because of Ms. Rowling’s revealing comments about her story circles. I’m not a movie-reader, I’d already seen Warner Brothers’ DH2 last summer, and, really, the DVD  extras? I broke down, though, and bought a copy before the long drive to Virginia this week so my children who hadn’t yet seen the film could watch on the 24 hour ride from Oklahoma City to Front Royal.

That was a hit with them and last night we watched the three extras in our hosts’ lovely home. Sure enough, there were three moments in which Ms. Rowling made reference to something like the necessity in her story telling to complete circles, one signature of Ring Composition. [Read more…]